As part of a recent leadership program here at education.au Simon (no blog), Will (no blog) and myself took the opportunity to develop a concept for a new style of search engine, designed to supplement the edna distributed search engine with better support for querying structured metadata.
We designed a new type of search interface, using […]
Patrick Lambe at Greenchameleon recently blogged a very positive reaction to a paper my colleague Sarah Hayman presented at the Developing and Improving Classification Schemes conference. His reaction was mostly to our concept of a Taxonomy directed Folksonomy, but he mentioned the idea of person-mediated serendipity. This is an area we agree is a […]
There was a great post today on O’Reilly Radar referencing a post by Jo Guldi: “How Google Books is Changing Academic History”.
To quote:
I was idly trying a search on “roads” to see what sort of a literature would turn up for the period of my dissertation research, 1740-1850. I didn’t expect much. I’ve […]
My colleague Sarah Hayman & I have had a paper on Taxonomy directed Folksonomies accepted at the World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council. That’s excellent news, because it gives me some prompting to get all the excellent discussions I’ve had with people about the concept written down somewhere.
Many thanks to […]
Just a link for those interested:
Automatic Classification of Web resources using Java and Dewey Decimal Classification
There is also an implementation in the form of a directory and a search.
No-one should think what follows is anything but a prototype built to outline some directions we are considering for future development.
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Here at education.au we have a number of experts in metadata management and information organisation. As you’d expect in that environment the rise of folksonomies has generated a great deal of discussion.
As part of a new project here at education.au I’ve been exploring how to combine the two into something I’ve named a taxonomy directed […]
Danny Sullivan is a long time commentator on the search industry. If you’ve read John Battelle’s The Search you’ll know how important he was to Google’s early development.
Danny recently wrote a post called Why Search Sucks & You Won’t Fix It The Way You Think which argues that most UI innovations in search (such as […]
I have recently become a user of LibraryThing. As a fairly heavy reader, I’ve found it one of the most useful social applications I’ve tried.
While it takes a while to enter your books (I’d estimate I’ve only done 10% of my collection) it is already showing me useful recomendations for books I haven’t read.
Interestingly, the […]
